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Nikki
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Nikki @nikkismiling.bsky.social · Nov 16
Hello BlueSky 💙
Smiling redhead lady #photography #portrait #smile
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In the chaos of dawn, rain lashes windows like frantic violins, thunder growls low cellos, wind howls flutes gone mad.
Yet she steps outside, arms wide, letting the storm compose its wild #symphony around her soul.
For in discord, she finds her harmony.
#vss365
January 7, 2026 at 7:14 AM
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fhpowellwriter.bsky.social
#vss365 #prompt for 7 January, 2026, is #symphony

Hopefully this will be music to your ears.

"A symphony is no joke".

Johannes Brahms

Go and write a symphony
January 7, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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In return, @farwall.bsky.social, a pleasantly gothic moon.
a yellow moon behind dark tree branches
January 5, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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digitalprimate.bsky.social
Good morning from Haarlem.

#GoodMorningFromHaarlem
A shot of the main square with a street lamp lighting up the cathedral and other buildings and sculpture on the snow covered square.
January 6, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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risingspray.bsky.social
In the mirror's gaze, I saw not my reflection, but a stranger's hollow eyes: echoes of choices unmade, dreams deferred.
The room chilled; I was #spooked by the ghost of who I could have been.
What haunts you more: the unknown, or the self you've buried alive?
#vss365
January 6, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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risingspray.bsky.social
Grandad & grandson:
Grandad drinks beer.

Kid: "Can I try?"

Grandad: "Can your dick touch your arse?"

"No."

"No beer."

Same with cigar.

Later, kid eating fairy cakes.

Grandad: "Gimme one!"

Kid: "Can YOUR dick touch your arse?"

"Yes!"

"Then go fuck yourself. Granny made 'em for me!"

😆🤣
January 6, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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mullicannot.bsky.social
Tonight’s sunset at Ocean Beach Pier in San Diego, California

#sandiego #sdca #oceanbeach #beach #surfing #sunset #obpier #landscapes_lovers #photography
A silhouetted person stands on wet sand beneath a long pier at sunset, with evenly spaced columns and lampposts receding into the distance. Rippled clouds fill the sky in deep blues and purples above a band of orange light at the horizon, mirrored in the reflective shoreline below.
January 6, 2026 at 2:37 AM
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bar44.bsky.social
Somewhere in London for Monochrome Monday. September 2025 #Photography #MonochromeMonday #B&W #Architecture #London 📷
January 6, 2026 at 5:46 AM
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jamesmarvinphelps.bsky.social
Fisher Towers are a group of rock towers near Moab, Utah, made of Cutler sandstone, capped with Moenkopi sandstone, and coated in a crust of red mud. They’re named after a miner who lived nearby in the 1880s and rise about 900 feet above the valley floor.

#utah #desert #landscape #photography #moab
January 5, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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🌳☀️ #thicktrunktuesday #trees #woodland #treeclub
January 6, 2026 at 6:39 AM
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Co Durham, 1962

A Darlington bound service calls at a cold and snowy West Auckland. I bet it’s lovely and warm on that DMU ❄️❄️❄️

📷 P Jay
Co Durham, 1962 A Darlington bound diesel multiple unit calls at a cold and snowy West Auckland
January 5, 2026 at 11:53 AM
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cathwizard.bsky.social
the sky was REALLY showing off this morning

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A scenic photo of a blue sky dotted with small clouds. There is marshland in the foreground.
January 5, 2026 at 4:00 PM
nikkismiling.bsky.social
The old house never creaked until I confessed my worst secret to its walls.
Then, every floorboard whispered it back: louder, hungrier.
Now I sleep with lights on,
afraid the building knows me better than I do.
#spooked #vss365
January 6, 2026 at 7:07 AM
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fhpowellwriter.bsky.social
#vss365 #prompt for 6 January, 2026, is #spooked

Edgar Allan Poe said "The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls."

As John le Carré said “I think that I was always a writer who became a spook for a while rather than a spook who became a writer.”
January 6, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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elwick70.bsky.social
Doncaster, 1987

HSTs on platforms 4 and 3b wait to depart north whilst a p-way gang clear snow from the points on the Sheffield ladder using a tea pot from the mess room on platform 3a!

#Doncaster #Yorkshire #UKSnow

📷 R Varley
Doncaster, 1987 HSTs on platforms 4 and 3b wait to depart north whilst a p-way gang clear snow from the points on the Sheffield ladder using a tea pot from the mess room on platform 3a
January 5, 2026 at 11:43 AM
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admirablewomen.bsky.social
#OTD in 1925, Nellie Tayloe Ross was sworn in as the governor of #Wyoming ...becoming the first female governor in U.S. history.

She went on to become the first female Director of the United States Mint in 1933. #history #firsts
A vintage black-and-white composite photograph honoring Nellie Tayloe Ross, the first woman governor in the United States. On the left, a three-quarter portrait shows her in early 1920s formal attire: a dark coat with a large fur collar, a white rose corsage pinned to her lapel, and a close-fitting hat with decorative elements, gazing to her right with a calm, confident expression. On the right, a tilted newspaper clipping features the bold headline "THE FIRST WOMAN GOVERNOR" followed by "Wyoming's Governor / THE WOMAN WHO MADE GOOD," with a smaller inset oval portrait of Ross wearing a wide-brimmed hat adorned with a bow, and a long pearl necklace; below the portrait, text reads "Businesslike—Able—Courageous. She Has Earned Re-election."
January 5, 2026 at 10:32 PM
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sailorjames.bsky.social
It may not be Friday but on a Monday a smile is very much needed. 😀
January 5, 2026 at 7:51 PM
nikkismiling.bsky.social
The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express (the luxurious revival) kicked off its first London-to-Venice journey on 25 May 1982, departing from Victoria Station aboard restored vintage British Pullman cars that once carried royalty and featured in Churchill's funeral train. #OrientExpress #LondonTrivia
January 6, 2026 at 6:36 AM
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German astronomer Martin Brendel took the first photograph of an aurora #OTD in 1892, at Alta fjord in northern Norway.

Here’s the photo, alongside one I took from my back porch in Chicago, of all places, back in November. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️
A black and white photo of an aurora, which appears as a nebulous, veil-like cloud in the sky. Color photo of a red and green aurora above a Chicago neighborhood. The color and curtain like structure, easily seen here, was also visible to the naked eye.
January 5, 2026 at 5:11 PM
nikkismiling.bsky.social
So,
Just a heads up...
I've done two #FridayShareASmile posts and had only one or two smiley photos and emojis (thank you to those) but photos preferred.

I'll try again on Friday and hope one or two of you will join in.
I'll #repost ALL.

If not, fine, I'll try again the following Friday 😆 🤣
January 5, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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risingspray.bsky.social
🥰 Inner circle ⭕ 🤗

@thepriapicknave.bsky.social @paradisepumper.bsky.social @v0ice0fkings.bsky.social @milfsofia71.bsky.social @newyorkerjj.bsky.social @boobiehunter83.bsky.social @tullage.bsky.social @dirtydad25.bsky.social @simply-heinz.bsky.social @nikkismiling.bsky.social

#skycle
Friends
January 3, 2026 at 9:11 AM
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Approaching Sellafield. 10 February 2025. #railway #photography
Northern DMU 156421 working 2C59 to Carlisle heads into the station at Sellafield, beckoned in by the calling-on arm on the signal to the right. On the left, a number of DRS class 68 locos are visible; only 68008 is identifiable.
July 3, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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jia-feng.bsky.social
So this buck was enjoying eating just a couple of small leaves off of this bush. U can see his eyes closed and licking his chops as he focuses on taste. The bush smells like eucalyptus. We have several of these and they are popular with deer in winter....

#deer #buck #winter
January 5, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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zombiez0o.bsky.social
#photography #landscapes #true
#southwest #ruralpics #open
#picoftheday #smile

We all have layers
January 5, 2026 at 3:06 AM
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natalierj.bsky.social
I didn’t want my perfume to attract men anymore. I was sick of it. I wanted a repellent.

“ #Oddball Eau De Parfum repels most people,” the assistant said.

“Perfect.” I snapped it up.

But I’m still trailed by oddballs, just like before.

Maybe it was never the perfume… #vss365
a woman in a blue dress is standing in front of a wall with flowers on it
ALT: a woman in a blue dress is standing in front of a wall with flowers on it
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January 5, 2026 at 1:10 PM